Category: plutonium pollution
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28-year-old Karen Silkwood Died in a Car Crash Near Crescent, Oklahoma. November 13, 1974.
Image: Karen Silkwood (Public Domain) On this day in history, November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood died in a car crash near Crescent, Oklahoma. Silkwood was employed as a technician at a plutonium plant run by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she condemned the plant’s health and safety procedures. The evening she perished, she was going…
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